by Kris Gilpin
ANSWERS
ACROSS:by Kris Gilpin
ANSWERS TO PUZZLE #12
ACROSS:
1) Beauty, Black B-movie bombshell!: PAMGRIER
5) A fe/male fragrance: ARAMIS
9) A large monkey: BABOON
11) Man-machine interface (init.): MMI
12) Gross yellow-white ooze: PUS
13) A.k.a. National Academy of Design: NAD
14) John Landis' ____ the Night: INTO
15) A.k.a. Reserve Officers Training Corps.: ROTC
17) The heavens: ETHER
19) A.k.a. head of household on Big Brother: HOH
20) Mad Max's last name: ROCKATANSKY
22) The ___ Rock: HOT
23) _____ the Law: ABOVE
25) Boogie ___ you puke!: TIL
26) Liquid: FLUID
27) Space-y 80's Alan Arkin film: SIMON
29) For locating objects in water: SONAR
30) Creme of 10CC: LOL
31) Pieced-together flick with Price & Nicholson: RAVEN
33) Played Paul Kersey in popular '74 revenge tale: CHARLESBRONSON
DOWN:
1) A band-aid in London: PLASTER
2) Great new film with the great Sam Rockwell: MOON
3) Facially deformed actor from the '40s forced to play the heavy/creep/killer in films: RONDOHATTON
4) 2nd (at first underrated) solo album by McCartney: RAM
6) "Self facially deformed" comedienne who directed RABBIT TEST: (Joan) RIVERS
7) Excellent, underrated '89 Denzel film: MIGHTYQUINN
8) '85 Kelly Preston flick: SECRETADMIRER
9) She ain't fat, stupid, she has a ___ in the oven!: BUN
10) Long stick in a boat: OAR
11) Directed the tale mentioned in 33 across: MICHAELWINNER
12) Rare turd starring Eastwood: PINKCADILLAC
16) Rug rat: TOT
18) Tooth or head____: ACHE
21) Gives you instant sleep in the ring: K.O.
24) Zappa asked this brilliant guitarist to join his band: (Steve) VAI
26) Elvis song: "_____ __ Line.": FIRSTIN
27) Thin, creepy bad guy Henry _____: SILVA
28) One of our finest, "older" female actors: MERYL
32) The duct that transports sperm to the penis: ___ deferens: VAS
by Kris Gilpin
ANSWERS TO PUZZLE #11
ACROSS:
1) He's the sicko in 4 down: CHARLESNAPIER
8) Scary word (?!): BOO
9) What R. Russell's friends called her: ROZ
11) Robin Hood was one: ARCHER
12) ___ __ Know Your Rabbit: GETTO
13) Twisty consonant: ESS
16) Some dances are this type: LAP
19) Dusty H. in a bloody home-invasion drama: STRAWDOGS
20) Kill Me _____ : AGAIN
21) Awesome guitarist Steve ___: VAI
23) Prefix: no-/un-... : NON
25) Soon: ANON
26) Featured a big hitman who was gay: THEMEXICAN
27) Old "old" : OLDE
28) Actor ____ Edelman: HERB
31) Sex-crazed man who made 4 down: RUSSMEYER
36) Exclamations: OHS
37) The number on the box of some electronic products: UPC
38) Food made from fermented Japanese soybeans: MISOSOUP
39) ___'__ a Big Boy Now: YOU'RE
40) Directed 19 across: PECKINPAH
DOWN:
1) British interjection: COR
2) Ad ___ Committee: HOC
3) Awesome King Crimson instrumental: "_____ Tongues in Aspic" : LARKS
4) A sicko in this stabs a woman with a knife, punches her, then electrocutes her in a tub: SUPERVIXENS
5) Chauvinist male: PIG
6) Zappa's boy was named after this musical Ahmet: ERTEGUN
7) What your guts will do after you're dead: ROT
8) Great 70's killer road film starring Charlie S.'s dad: BADLANDS
10) Short for "a Zed and two naughts" : ZOO
14) Aka the Speech Association of America: SAA
15) Sexy Ellen B. played a man reincarnated as a woman in this: SWITCH
17) Earlier: AGO
18) Peter & Steve both played them: PANTHERS
22) Early Richard D. film in which he played a burnt-out porn director: INSERTS
24) A theater chain: AMC
25) Jimmy Olsen obviously had _ ____ for news: ANOSE
29) Dark skin mark: BRUISE
30) Lovely singer in Elf: ZOOEY
32) Not USPS: UPS
33) Weak later Woody film: SCOOP
34) Chairman ___ : MAO
35) Aka "gob" in Britain: YAP
by Kris Gilpin
ANSWERS TO PUZZLE #10
ACROSS:
1) Canadian film: The _______ _____ in the World: SADDESTMUSIC
9) Starred Gena Rowlands & Denis Leary in '95: NEONBIBLE
11) Stone film about a guy who showed his weenis on stage: DOORS
13) What said weenis can do: PEE
14) "Everything" in England: (THE) LOT
15) What's always stained when you're hit by a car: UNDERWEAR
17) The 13th _____.: FLOOR
18) Majors or Marvin: LEE
19) Nic Cage eats 2 huge cockroaches onscreen!: VAMPIRESKISS
22) Brian Cox's beloved old dog is killed by scumbags: RED
23) aka United Press International: UPI
24) The Ox played this amazingly in the Who: BASS
26) Counterfeit bills, etc.: FAKES
27) Big turd: ___ and 1/2: COP
28) Ringo named his boy this: ZAK
30) The only motion picture to feature Sir John Gielgud -- & a close-up blow job!: CALIGULA
33) "Star" of Das Boot & Hunt for Red October: SUB
35) Alternative "alternate.": ALT
37) People used to flick it in commercials: BIC
38) Johnson: TOR
39) He was the Dust Devil: ROBERTBURKE
41) Burt comedy about death: (THE) END
42) Gorgeous Julie Dreyfus played her in Kill Bill: SOPHIE
43) Uber-nerd: "Dood, I just ______ in a Boba Fett Milk Bone for a rare sheet of Tarkin toilet paper!!": TRADED
DOWN:
1) The ______ Dwarf: SINFUL
2) Big turd: ____ ____ Fred: DROPDEAD
3) A tiny bit of a dying fire: EMBER
4) An Angel at My _____: TABLE
5) Alternative to a savings account?: USE IRAS
6) Some women have this inside them: IUD
7) Where the awesome Dust Devil was shot: AUSTRALIA
8) The name of the Forbin Project: COLOSSUS
10) Born (re: a female): NEE
12) Nickname for Aussie hopper: 'ROO
16) Campbell: NEVE
17) aka picture: FLICK
20) _____ Suite: PLAZA
21) More hazardous: RISKIER
22) Brooks & Attenborough: RICHARDS
25) Mineo: SAL
26) aka flying rubber: FLUBBER
29) Simon & Garfunkel, for instance: DUO
31) This cutie cut off someone's head in Kill Bill: LIU
32) Biting to the taste & smell: ACRID
33) Patrick & Ralph played him: (JOHN) STEED
34) aka Uma in Kill Bill: BRIDE
36) Big turd: Boat ____: TRIP
40) Plumb or Arden: EVE
by Kris Gilpin
ANSWERS TO PUZZLE #9
ACROSS:
1) The little con artist's name in a B&W 70's film: ADDIE
3) _ ____ who killed me: IKNOW
6) ___ don't leave: MEN
8) A N.W. China river: ILI
10) Colin & Anthony: QUINNS
11) The evil deity: LOK
13) Brian C. was a child molester: L.I.E.
14) Prices: COSTS
15) _______ with the mostest: HOSTESS
17) A stimulus: CUE
18) Gritty, eclectic N.Y. filmmaker: ABELFERRARA
21) In other words: IOW
22) ___ and away: FAR
23) (While Georgie's guitar ______ weeps): GENTLY
24) What she usually pleads in bed: NOTYET
25) Much ___ ...: ADO
26) Brainy report: EEG
27) Silky smooth: SATIN-LIKE
28) Winston or Lee: STAN
29) Notoriously wasted in 18 across film: HARVEYKEITEL
DOWN:
1) Allegorical, B&W 90's film about vampires in N.Y.: ADDICTION
2) Young headcase blinds 6 horses in this: EQUUS
4) Popular, violent film about a N.Y. ex-con drug dealer: KINGOFNEWYORK
5) Co-starred in 7 down: WILLEMDAFOE
6) Oldfield & Nesmith: MIKES
7) Love/hate-it film by 18 across with a totally unique, contemplative last half hour: NEWROSEHOTEL
9) Kent's girlfriend: LOIS
12) Stunning beauty who caused all the trouble in 7 down: ASIAARGENTO
16) Great indie queen who starred in 1 down: LILITAYLOR
17) In the 30's he helped bring up baby: CARYGRANT
19) Bend sharply: FOLD
20) What they do to a film before release: RATE
by Kris Gilpin
ANSWERS TO PUZZLE #8
ACROSS:
1) Film: Very realistic robots, but "they haven't perfected the hands yet.": WESTWORLD
6) Hot Amanda: PEET
9) Suffix, means "full of": -OSE
11) Bloody Sam's swan song: OSTERMAN (Weekend)
13) He once did some very bad things: (Peter) BERG
15) This home-hostage hold-up was hilarious!: (The) REF
17) He told this harrowing story from the end to the beginning: NOE (Irreversible)
18) Greasey nerd: EDDIEDEEZEN
21) God's Little ____: ACRE
22) Temporal lobe epilepsy: TLE
23) Pre-email: SNAILMAIL
27) Lighter than air: LTA
28) ____ beyond: FROM
30) Fitting name for 70's schlockmeister, Jerry _____: GROSS
32) Doesn't live here anymore: EXPAT
33) Pacino: "Great ___!": ASS
34) Paul W. was this music-producing creep in a musical tale: SWAN
35) 18 across was in this popular drive-iner with a beautiful rainbeaux: LASERBLAST
38) Remade when Dennis was with Meg: DOA
39) Rider or $: EASY
41) ____ of faith: LEAP
42) These dudes wore goatees a half-century ago: HIPSTERS
44) Adorable woofer with an eye ring: PETEY
45) Old P.I.s would throw their hat at this: COATSTAND
DOWN:
1) Made 8 Down: WOODYALLEN
2) Curly consonant: ESS
3) Woofers that live in Ireland: SETTERS
4) Drug addled John B. book & film: WIRED
5) Papers in school: LINED
7) 18across's name in . . . 18 across: EUGENE
8) ____ ___ _____ ___ run: TAKETHEMONEYAND
10) Worked with Crowe twice -- & lived to tell of it: DENZEL
12) We ___ marshall: ARE
14) Male fish sperm (really): ROE
16) White, soft goat product: FETA
19) Miller, for short: DEN
20) He was ugly as he ran through a western cemetery: ELI (Wallach)
24) I am at _ ____: ALOSS
25) The beginning of pythons: "IT'S..."
26) 12" film: LASERDISC
28) ______ pussycat!: FASTER
29) Godawful Robert A. film: R.T.W. (Ready to Wear)
30) Hung out with a boy (who was a jerkoff) on paper: GALLANT
31) Repub. of S. Africa: RSA
32) Jenkins & Fitzgerald: ELLAS
36) 42 Across would have listened to this: BOP
37) Filmic bomb: FLOP
40) Dario A's greatest production!: ASIA
43) You can ride them in Chicago: ELS
by Kris Gilpin
ANSWERS TO PUZZLE #7
ACROSS:
1) He announced at Woodstock that they were goin' home: TENYEARSAFTER
9) Aurora/goddess: EOS
10) Spasm: TIC
11) Where you go when you feel dirty: TUB
13) Great rock guitarist who was big as a mountain before dropping 100 lbs.: LESLIEWEST
14) Another aging dinosaur: CHER
15) The old old: OLDE
18) Zest: ELAN
19) If you love his music it's repetitive, hate his music it's monotonous: PHILIPGLASS
25) A short Monday: MON
26) Billy W.'s writing partner: IAL (Diamond)
28) Film: "Are my methods unsound?" "I don't see any method at all, Sir.": APOCALYPSENOW
32) Classical dance step: PAS
34) Funny monster in the naughty Flesh Gordon: PENISAURUS
36) Majestic: EPIC
37) Prefix: not: NON-
39) Great retro group, initially: ELO
40) Intensely eager: AGOG
42) Horrorshow scored by 19 across: CANDYMAN
45) Bombeck: ERMA
46) Smooth __ ____: ASSILK
47) He can't read or write music, but he's a brilliant producer: BRIANENO
DOWN:
1) Sometimes it's stuck in the water: TOE
2) Do you have this kind of gas?: ESSO
3) ____ __ the score: EVENUP
4) Short route: RTE
5) Not a brother: SIS
6) Players: ACTORS
7) Fred's old squeeze: ETHEL
8) Street in Paris: RUE
9) First "modern" Midnight movie: ELTOPO
12) Big-ass star in 28 across: BRANDO
14) Erasable/recordable CD: CDE
16) Thriving: BLOOMING
17) Cocksmen: PLAYERS
20) Widdle fellow: IMP
21) John C.'s War, ___.: INC
22) Buck Rogers on your T.V.: GIL
23) One of those tall mountains: ALP
24) Sometimes navigators say this: SSE
27) Crazed in 28 across: HOPPER
28) Sexy, surreal, popular show -- horrible film: AVENGERS
29) (Alias Zappa): AKAFRANK
30) Cry at sea: SOS
31) Howl: WAIL
33) Eastwood villain: SCORPIO
35) Extended plea: NOO
38) A near-brilliant man -- who followed a total idiot!: OBAMA
41) Zep's maker: DYER- (Led Zep song)
43) Found in radiology: MRI
44) Yummy Indian bread: NAN
by Kris Gilpin
ANSWERS TO PUZZLE #6
ACROSS:
1) Film about a reality show: TRUMANSHOW
8.5) Secret spy: MOLE
9) Wrote about boys from Brazil: IRA (Levin)
10) 3 Dog Night told you he was coming: ELI
12) Top: CEILING
13) Shit Flick studio: TROMA
15) Familiar: FAM
16) In the crotch, baby: LOINS
18) Bizarro midnight movie about a mutant baby & more: ERASERHEAD
21) Sandra B. surfing: (The) NET
22) Do these initials mean anything to you?!: FU
23) ___ Paulo: SAO
24) He was Thing-Fish, Chunga, Sheik Yerbouti, Man from Utopia, Grand Wazoo: FRANKZAPPA
28) Evening (lit.): E'EN
29) What's the ___?!: USE
31) Beatles' cry: HELP
32) Pseudo hippy who made some great 70's films: HALASHBY
35) He farted in a phone booth: RAINMAN
39) Starred as 31 down, directed by 32 across: BUDCORT
42) Devil's ___: OWN
43) Vowels: E,I,O
44) Beatles' blues: "YER"
45) Flowers on your front: LEI
46) Now-obscure Lili T. road movie: BRIGHTANGEL
DOWN:
2) Flair & Mayall: RICS
3) Suffix, office or function: -URE
4) Meg & Tom got it: MAIL
5) Ran from huge reptiles: (Sam) NEILL
6) Saturday Live Night?: SLN
7) Nine to five filmmaker: (Colin) HIGGINS
8) People chanted in it, "No rain! No rain! No rain!": WOODSTOCK
8.5) Eclectic group formed by 24 across: MOTHERS
8.9) It'll scratch your back: LOOFA
11) Video player?: GAMEFAN
14) More in Madrid: MAS
17) National Endowment for the Arts: NEA
19) Physical Patrick D. movie: RUN
20) Vid copies: DUPES
24) Surrealist from Italy: FELLINI
25) Speaks for an actor: REP
26) Early Michael C. film: ZULU
27) Film speed: ASA
30) 'Bots or replicants: CYBORGS
31) Loved an 80 year old woman on screen: HAROLD
33) Single-celled organism: AMEBA
34) Film pic: STILL
36) Ability to inspire dread: AWE
37) It was up there for Kevin B.: AIR
38) Black (Fr.): NOIR
39) Auto-____ (Ger.): BAHN
40) Married C. Grant: DYAN (Cannon)
41) Central: CEN
by Kris Gilpin
ANSWERS TO PUZZLE #5
ACROSS:
1) He shot for Peckinpah, drove for Carpenter: BORGNINE
7) Neil Young says a man needs one of these: MAID
10) He & his horse were both drunk in a classic shot: LEE (Marvin)
11) Native American peeps: OTO
12) It was Sailor & Lula in London: WILDATHEART
15) Have: OWN
16) Roman poet, probably drank & whored like Bukowski (?!): OVID
17) Idiot trier: (Judge) ITO
18) Fred Pohl novel, ___ Plus: MAN
19) Brilliant leader of 20 Down group: PETERGABRIEL
22) Sometimes a hair gets on it: LENS
23) Shit Flick starring Josh B.'s dad: CAR
25) Warren drove around with this guy's nob in a mung-dripping, disgusting, fly-infested bag: ALFREDOGARCIA
30) Quarter: SEM(ester)
32) Laff fest featuring on-screen cameramen who look like cheesy S.W. stormtroopers: REALLIFE
33) School paper: REPORT
37) Every woman was one: MISS
38) Utilize: USE
40) The title character blows one guy up via dynamite as the latter is masturbating (ha!): THEMADBOMBER
45) Poland: POL
46) Not MST: EST
47) Hit book, bomb Kevin S. film: SHIPPINGNEWS
DOWN:
2) Hardy or Platt: OLIVER
3) Ignited again: RELIT
4) Watanabe: GEDDE
5) Not an Exterior in a script: INT.
6) Song & film: ___ of Destruction: EVE
7) Carried needles because he thought he was a vampire: MARTIN
8) Beautiful Rose's generation: DOOM
9) Starred as 40 Across: (Chuck) CONNERS
11.5 (?!): Big iron bird!: TWA
12) What did you call me?!: WOP
13) Woofer: ____dale: AIRE
14) They can be webbed, but rarely: TOES
20) Their masterpiece involved selling England...: GENESIS
21) English trouser: BLOOMER
24) Take place: OCCUR
26) A period in London: FULLSTOP
27) (Say what, bro?!): (I'm) DEF
28) Women love it, men want it off: A/TOP
29) Results from big subterranean worms: TREMORS
31) Crimson King's Fripp: ROBERT
34) Electronic Evidence Discovery: EED
35) It's $100, __.: OBO
36) London underground: TUBE
39) Socioeconomic status: SES
41) ___-dermal: EPI
42) Ya, ___!: MON
43) Not Trig: ALG
44) Aloha: BYE
by Kris Gilpin
ANSWERS TO PUZZLE #4
ACROSS:
1) Pretty Peggy, or tea: LIPTON
4) Once they freakily rained down on film: FROGS
7) Aldo Ray shit flick about a stupid swamp creature: BOG
8) Ed & Gretch & 52 Bicycles: ROUNDERS
9) Row yer boat: OAR
11) David B.'s musical brothers: BEWLAY
12) Ron H. as a young'un: OPIE
14) Rockin' dirigible: LED (Zeppelin)
16) Son of monkey: APEBOY
17) (Almost got ass): AS
19) "__-Nuff!": SHO
21) She told Coop from death, "I will see you again in 25 years": LAURAPALMER
24) Typically good Gabriel CD: SO
25) Relayer(s) of great, sometimes fragile progc -- and Howe!: YES
27) 7 Down's tattooed man was this: ILLUSTRATED
29) Moi: ME
31) Do midgets suck this?: HELIUM
32) Jenny & Meg: TILLYS
33) Filmmaker's right-hand man/woman: AD
34) Roberts & some school exams: ORALS
35) Badass Frank Doubleday in "New York:" ROMERO
36) Group of thespians: SAG
DOWN:
1) Lauren & a key: LARGO
2) Debbie R.'s trap: TENDER
3) Kitty Winn got wasted in this square: NEEDLE
4) A foreign exchange student: FES
5) Oh, ____ __!: GROWUP
6) The Frenchie Tognazzi: UGO
7) Wrote classic film about a big fish: BRADBURY
10) Lettieri or Molinaro: AL
13) Gross yellow ooze: PUS
15) Women have these balls: EYE
16) Crappy internet: AOL
17) Kevin S. shot a white one: ALLIGATOR
18) He finally said, as an old man, "I don't even bother making love to small-breasted women now. It's a waste of my time": RUSSMEYER
19) Cool blood patterns: SPLATTERS
20) Larger tee-hee: HA
22) Routine: ROTE
23) Created golden turkeys: MEDVEDS
26) '50's rubber: SCUMBAG
28) A mystery man: LUDLUM
30) York & Sargeant (& Bush, too!): DICKS
31) S.K.'s ___-9000 computer: HAL
by Kris Gilpin
ANSWERS TO PUZZLE #3
ACROSS:
6) In the '60s his exteriors represented his characters' interiors: ANTONIONI
8) Dirty Bob: SAGET
10) Some say his wife became stone, some say salt: LOT
11) David B.'s machine: TIN
14) Got in bed with Ted, Bob & Alice: CAROL
16) Thinking: MULLING
18) They said, on the record, not to crush that dwarf: FIRESIGNTHEATRE
20) M. Antony asked to borrow these: EARS
21) Who's behind the curtain? WIZARDOFOZ
24) It's friggin' cold in here: IGLOO
25) S. Lem novel, read by Andrei T. & Steven S.: SOLARIS
27) The funny version of 22 down: GAY (Blade)
28) Depressed & beautiful in blue: BINOCHE
DOWN:
1) Like: ENJOY
2) E. Wood was not a bad one: SON
3) A secret agent's daytime illuminations: LIVING (Daylights)
4) Edward Scissor--I mean, Penishands (initially): ESP
5) Rosie O'Dildo has a huge, fat one: EGO (& you thought it was ass ;)
7) May it live long: NEWFLESH
9) Monte H.'s blacktop: TWOLANE
12) Lynch's pain & suffering: GARMANBOZIA
13) 20th century schizoid progmen: KINGCRIMSON
15) Type of epidermis once around Viggo M.: REFLECTING (Skin)
16) Julia R. with no make-up on: MARYREILLY
17) You get this if you are evil: (the) CHAIR
19) The male type who spends his life getting into tense situations: REPO (Man)
22) Antonio or Guy: ZORRO
23) Always a treat, or an idiot, or Bush: BOOB
26) Sam R. (anti?) hero: ASH
by Kris Gilpin
ANSWERS TO PUZZLE #2
ACROSS:
6) What it's like in Dennis Hopper's spot: HOT
7) Recited for Alice Cooper: VINCENT PRICE
9) He warned you not to pick up the telephone!: NICHOLASWORTH
10) Weird Al on the air: UHF
11) Tilda & Co. took some sun there: THE BEACH
13) Right bloody now!: ASAP
15) Space dwarf: E.T.
18) Babe who snatched some candy: TIFFANYBOLLING
21) Rick M.'s grew up to be a man eater: PLANT
22) Filmed his speaking parts: ATOMEGOYAN
23) Ancient snake: ASP
DOWN:
1) Cool cannibalism, from a woman: RAVENOUS
2) A good hooker comes with these: HANDCUFFS
3) The last (younger) Floyd: FINALCUT
4) M. Ryan was against these: ROPES
5) Not that one...: THISONE
6) High school bee-otches: HEATHERS
8) Wrote great red prose about a young female neighbor: KETCHUM
12) Kill: HIT
13) His wife called him hun: ATTILA
14) Apparently played Bingo on 11 across: ANNETTE
16) Wenders' early cinematic alter-ego: VOGLER
17) One of Altman's trio of females: SISSY
19) Typing types: FONTS
20) Milligan, Sellers & Secombe: GOONS
by Kris Gilpin
ANSWERS TO PUZZLE #1
ACROSS:
1) Do not pick him up: HITCHER
8) Ugly fucker: RONJEREMY
9) A scared Ripley sang of this type of star: LUCKY
12) Pappy Zombie: GEORGEAROMERO
13) He truly believed that reality was a real sham: PHILIPKDICK
15) Mr. Bunny loved to get one: CARROT
17) P. Grier kicked ass in it: ARENA
19) He told Harlan he'd see him in Pittsburgh: JAMESWOODS (from VIDEODROME)
DOWN:
2) 10 down's notorious claim to fame: HENRY
3) Quentin and others had less than a handful of these: ROOMS
4) Sometimes it tests you in a road: FORK
5) Marky Mark drove a lot there: ITALY
6) "Firefly" & his hilarious brothers declared war in this: DUCKSOUP
7) Young, lovely muse to pre-Lynch, French weirdfilm-maker: ANNAKARINA
10) Broke a neck in very disturbing sequence in 2 down: ROOKER
11) As Frank Poole, he drifted off in space to die: LOCKWOOD
12) Early film with the hot Woman in Black: GOTCHA
14) Jagger in NC-17 Nazi gay-POW drama, originally a play: BENT
16) Bitch Joan in her last cinematic turd: TROG
18) Exhibited tension with small mountains, but sucked with reflecting objects: AJA
